My view of the cow parade

I’m the proud wife of my husband, devoted father of our two girls and grandfather of two, dedicated son-in-law, brother-in-law, real man who prays, rancher, entrepreneur. After teaching high school for 33 years my life is now filled with fun choices. Those choices include traveling to visit each daughter in their interesting surroundings, spending time at the farm, teaching at the local community college, consulting on state level and national level foreign language projects, tutoring, and volunteering for our church. I am the daughter of a rocket scientist and college language professor. My father was a Dutchman raised in Mexico and my mother was an only child of only children raised in the Pacific Northwest. I rather feel suspended among several cultures. Nicolás Guillén’s “Balada de los dos abuelos” resonates with me. I try to synthesize several cultures and be who I am.

Looks like you’re having a wonderful time in Southern California. I lived in the Northern part for 2 years then the bay area for almost 2 years as well. I wish I ventured to the Southern part, they say it’s beautiful and your recent post shows it. Have a great time with your family. Be safe on your travels. God bless you and your family. Thanks for the visit /comments.

I’m notifying my favorite bloggers one by one, since I couldn’t figure out how to get links to work (I’m technically challenged) – You’ve been nominated by me for the Versatile Blogger Award. If you want to take advantage of this dubious honor… Write a post that mentions notquiteold as your nominator, nominate 15 other posts (a lot I know) and tell your readers seven things about yourself that they may not know. Congrats, and I love your blog.

Awww…how sweet and thank you. I nominated a few last June when the Self-styled life nominated me. I think I can come up with a couple more. Don’t want to burden folks with homework and I will reply to this asap, tomorrow or Friday. Thank you for the honor and I love visiting you, too. You have a nice writing style and a great theme I can identify with. Looking forward to reading more.

Thanks for stopping by Sam’s blog this morning to congratulate him on the latest award presented by our mutual friend Dianna at These Days of Mine. Your blog is really beautifully done and well-followed. I can see why!

Thank you, Praveena, for your kindness in thinking of me. I will give this some thought for my posts in the month of May. So great to have you on board in the blogging family. Have a wonderful day and Congratulations on your award! Keep writing.

Every once in a while on facebook, I see a post coming from your blog. I then go and read it. I do enjoy them and am in awe at how although distance has separated our families, there is so much familiarity to be found. My grandfather was your grandfather’s youngest brother, making my mother first cousin to your father. It is truly remarkable how strong and common their influences were on their children and grandchildren. I’m not a blogger, but I do enjoy reading them!

Oh, Sibylle, thank you for visiting! So that’s you clicking in Canada? I can see a geographic map of where posts come from, but only by country. I can’t wait to tell my mother. She remembers fondly your visit to Houston and brings it up from time to time. Thank you for filling in the relationship, it is rather close considering your grandfather was the younger brother of HP de Kanter, my grandfather. We called him Papi. Please, don’t hesitate to fill in a story or two in the comments or via e-mail…you can even correct me if that is required. 🙂

I am so happy you like book and ready for 3 more but have to save up some $ first to fund the effort. One thing I would appreciate very much is perhaps put in a sentence or two at amazon site review/comment section. Regards.